How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?
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Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago
The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...
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These baffling bone artifacts discovered by an amateur archaeologist may be the world's oldest whale harpoons
Researchers in Brazil think they may have discovered the earliest known evidence of whaling. According to a recent study ...
Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...
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World's Oldest Harpoons Show Whaling Much Older than We Thought
Several harpoons and the remains of whales on the south coast of Brazil show that people 5,000 years ago were able to hunt ...
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Archaeological evidence from southern Brazil indicates that Indigenous communities developed specialized whale hunting ...
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...
Historians and archaeologists long considered that the origins of organised whaling lay in the Arctic region of the Earth. A recent discovery in southern Brazil disproves this hypothesis. In the ...
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